If I could go back twenty years I wonder if I would have
seen myself in the place where I stand today. My life was going down a straight
path there were no corners, no roundabouts, no junctions, just a plain old straight
road. It's funny how we come away from that straight road sometimes without
planning to. We do however we find a way, whether it be through mucky fields or
going the wrong way down a one-way street we will come back onto the road to
our future. It is maybe not the same one as before, but it's a road going
generally in the right direction.
My third book Card School has now been released and as I
approach my next project I imagine where I want to be in the future. I want to
be happy and successful, don't we all? I enjoy writing books in the knowledge that
people read them; that people will read about my characters and get to know them
and that the things that happen in my books will be understood and accepted.
A boarding school is not always
the first choice for parents or children but Michael Dawson did not have the
luxury of choice. At ten years of age he had to deal with the loss of both
parents who had been abroad on a church mission. He never had the chance to say
goodbye only see you later. He believed when they went, they would return, but
they didn't. Not only having to contend with the biggest loss known to a child
he was thrust into the full time guardianship of his uncaring Auntie who he had
been staying with but only until his parents came back. Now they were not
coming back his future had to be decided. Learning that he can only trust
himself, and faced with a dark secret in the boarding school where he is
placed, he sets out to unravel the answers and find questions to fit. He has no
intention of getting too close but ends up being in the direct firing line. When
all hope is lost, the person he expects least of all to be there comes to the
rescue, but is it all too little too late?.
Michael is a ten year old boy who loses his parents in a car
accident whilst they are abroad. He didn't say goodbye, he thought he would see
them again so said "see you later." All too often people are taken
from us without a chance for us to say goodbye. We should remember this when we
fall out with people over silly things and remember - Never go to bed on an
argument.
So as people read my new book CARD SCHOOL I will be writing
my next book safe in the knowledge that soon my characters will be alive in
someone's living room.
I'll keep writing if you keep reading.
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